There was uproar among music fans today after yobs behind a fake Oxegen Twitter account encouraged them to cut themselves to win tickets.

The account, @OfficialOxegen, sparked controversy when it posted a sick competition urging its 10,000 followers to ‘Cut for Oxegen’ and win a two-day camping pass for the world-famous Kildare music festival this August.

Referring to the Cut for Bieber online campaign which led to countless Justin Bieber fans self-harming, the controversial tweet encouraged Oxegen fans to upload pictures of them cutting themselves.

The early morning tweet read: “You’ve cut for Bieber, now it’s time to #CutForOxegen!! Send your cut pic to win 2daycampingtix.”

The tweet was quickly deleted from the rogue account, but not before it had been read by thousands of impressionable young music fans who were duped into believing it was the official Oxegen Twitter page.

And there was more uproar after one follower calling himself the Irish psycho posted a snap of himself holding a carving knife to his throat.

One outraged festival fan fumed: “A self-harming competition?”

Another tweeted: “This account isn’t going to end well. Holding a self harm competition for tickets?”

Back in January, internet trolls hit a new low when they urged Justin Bieber fans to take to Twitter and post pictures of themselves self-harming with the hashtag ‘CutForBieber’, in protest over the pictures that emerged of him smoking a joint.

While some people bizarrely found it amusing, others, like Miley Cyrus, were outraged.

The former Disney star fumed: “Cutting is NOT something to joke about. There are people who are actually suffering from self-harm, this is so disrespectful.”

MCD Productions, the promoters behind Oxegen today insisted the real festival Twitter account is @OxegenOfficial and urged music fans not to be duped by fakes.

A spokesman said: “No other Oxegen Twitter account is affiliated with the festival.”

The fake account was at the centre of another hoax storm earlier this week after it posted a letter online responding to the abuse the organisers have been getting over the line-up.

Signed ‘The Oxegen 2013 Team’, the “open letter to all the haters” told anyone who didn’t like the acts to “f**k off”.

It added: “The line-up we managed to secure was to please our target market... they’re willing to spend their dole money coming to see these bands.

“We here at Oxegen are certainly not proud of this line-up, in fact the majority of us would never listen to any of these ‘headliners’.

“To summarise, it’s your fault the standard of mainstream music is so shockingly bad and it’s your fault for being a bunch of stingey b**tards.”